Δηώ

Where it lives

• Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
• Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
• Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Δηοῦς · Dēous Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 430)
• Δηοῦς · Dēous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3675)
• Δηοῦς · Dēous Euripides, Suppliants (DIORISIS sentence 169)

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Δηώ (scan p. 374; entry #1673). Root candidates: *des-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Δηώ (scan p. 289; entry #1977).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Δηώ (scan p. 415; entry #1534).

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